Cigarette holder and dispenser



March 23, 1937. A, KRAUS 2,074,925

CIGA RETTE HOLDER AND DISPENSER Filed May 14, 1936, 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 gwuem oo n A. Kali/5,5

March 23, 1937, A, KR AUSE 2,07 25 CIGARETTE HOLDER AND DISPENSER I Filed May 14, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Maya.

Patented Mar. 23, 1937 UNITED STATES CIGARETTE HOLDER AND DISPENSER Andrew G. Krause, Amsterdam, N. Y., assignor of one-half to Antonio Cotugno, Amsterdam,

Application May 14, 1936, Serial No. 79,797

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a cigarette holder and dispenser and it primarily aims to provide a novel means operable to dispense a cigarette, partly eject and light it.

It is further aimed to provide a structure wherein the lighting or igniting means for the cigarette moves against it to initiate the ejection thereof as well as to light the same.

Still further, it is aimed to provide a novel cigarette discharging means operable under control of the lighting and ejecting means.

The more specific objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings:--

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved machine;

{, Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a substantially central longitudinal sectional view through the device taken at a right angle to Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a horizontal sectional View taken on the line 5-4 of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a right hand side elevation of the machine;

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 3 showing 30 a cigarette in dispensed position;

Figure '7 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 1-7 of Figure 6;

Figure 8 is a vertical section taken on the line 8-8 of Figure 6;

Figure 9 is a detail section taken on the line 9-9 of Figure 1, and

Figure 10 is a detail vertical sectional view through the igniter.

Referring specifically to the drawings wherein like reference characters designate like or similar parts, a suitable casing is provided at I0, equipped with a hopper I I adapted to contain the cigars, cigarettes or the like at I2, to be dispensed through a discharge opening I3. The cigarettes or the like I2 may be supplied to the hopper from time to time through a space normally closed by a door I4, pivoted to the casing as at I5.

Normally the opening I3 is closed by a slide or plate I6 angularly disposed similar to a bottom wall I! of the hopper and which plate is connected thereto through the medium of rivets or the like I8, engaged by elongated slots I9 of the plate. Fastened to the wall I! are a plurality of fingers which extend below the opening I 3 and are adapted to receive the cigarettes one at a time as shown in Figure 3,the free ends 2| of which fingers are deflected upwardly so as to better retain the cigarettes. The plate I6 has a vertical wall or ejector at 22, engageable with the cigarette I2 while on the fingers 20 to force the same therefrom and into a holder or support 23.

Said holder or support is preferably made from a single sheet of metal and it is an electrical conductor bolted as at 24 to the base of the casing 25, which may be of insulation.

The holder 23 has a depressed portion 26 which holds the cigarette and a guide portion at 21 which leads the cigarettes thereto. A contact 28 is also provided on the holder 26.

An electrical conductor strip 29 is fastened to the base in spaced relation to the holder 23 and it extends rearwardly beyond the same. Strip 29 is bolted as at 30 to the base plate 25 and one of the bolts 24 and one of the bolts 30 serve as terminals for conductor wires 3| and 32, connected with any suitable source of electrical energy.

An electric. igniter is shown at 33, consisting essentially of a coil strip of conducting material, and one terminal thereof is in constant engagement with the conductor strip 29 while the other terminal thereof at times is adapted to engage the contact 28 at which instant an electric circuit, from the source of energy will be established through the igniter 33.

Said igniter is carried by a lateral branch 34 of a slidable actuating arm 35, extending through a front wall of the casing and terminally equipped with a knob 36, the arm being guided in its movement by brackets at 37 fastened to the base wall 25.

A lateral arm 38 extends from the plate I6 and is pivoted at 39 to a lever 40, pivoted at 4| to said base wall 25. Such lever has an arm 42, extending through an elongated slot 43 of the operating slide 35.

At the start of a dispensing operation and normally, the plate I 6 closes the discharge opening I 3 as shown in Figure 6. To dispense a cigarette I2, the knob 36 is drawn forwardly which through the medium of the lever 40, arm 33 and plate I6, the latter is retracted to expose the opening I3 so that a cigarette I2 will fall onto the fingers 20.

Thereupon the knob 36 is pushed inwardly and the mechanism mentioned, specifically through the ejector 22 will move the cigarette I2 laterally off of the fingers 20 onto the guide 21 and into the holder 26, following which, another forward movement of the knob 36 will open the slot I3 so that a cigarette I2 will fall onto the fingers 20. At the same time, the forward movement of the knob 36 moves the operating slide 35 bringing the igniter 33 into contact with the inner end of the cigarette mounted in the holder 26, such for- 5 ward movement of the igniter against the cigarette having partly ejected it, so that, after the lapse of sufiicient time for igniting the cigarette, the latter may be removed from the holder 26 through an opening 44 in the front of the casing. 10 It will be realized that the circuit through the igniter 33 will be closed through the engagement of its terminals with the strip 29 and the contact 28.

Various changes may be resorted to provided 15 they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention: 1. A device of the class described having a holder, a slide, means operable through movement 20 of said slide to discharge a cigarette into said holder, an igniter carried by the slide, said igniter being engageable with a cigarette in the holder, a

hopper, to contain a supply of cigarettes, having a discharge opening, the first mentioned means having a plate normally closing the opening, cigarette supporting means below the opening, and an ejector, for the cigarette on the supporting means, carried by said plate.

2. A device of the class described having a holder, a slide, means operable through movement of said slide to discharge a cigarette into said holder, an igniter carried by the slide, said igniter being engageable with a cigarette in the holder, a hopper, to contain a supply of cigarettes, having a discharge opening, the first mentioned means having a plate normally closing the opening, cigarette supporting means below the opening, and an ejector, for the cigarette on the supporting means, carried by said plate, an arm extending from the ejector, a. lever pivoted to a fixed part of the device and operatively connected to the arm, and said lever extending through a slot in the slide.

ANDREW G. KRAUSE. 

